It seams the government is still suffering from the.com blowout.   Large portion of the government's $60 billion it budget has been squandered on projects that no longer server purpose or have proven to yield no fruit.  

In this case I believe that President Bush's following a good path.   It is about time that we spend some resources reviewing our current it spending in the government.   How many times have be seen ridiculously ideas that have received a huge amount of government funding.   Many ideas have no direction whatsoever, or   any sort of qualified leadership.

My personal feelings on the subject are: the government should spend additional resources on developing a method to better track some other spending in the projects being spent on in addition to the impact that each of these projects has actually achieved..   If it is deemed a project is no hope of actually achieving any sort of results it's funding should be immediately cut.   The project itself should not be completely abandoned, but its resources should be distributed to another agency or project that would use them properly.   By performing these actions the money that was originally spent on the first project would not be completely wasted as is in so many cases what happens in the federal government it would however it would be moved to a team that has a better management team or has a better focus in regards to the task at hand.

To get better business cases and eliminate project duplication, OMB said, agencies will need to submit more joint project cases next year.   This is an obvious attempt to force agencies work together and spend the government funds more wisely.   now this is a strong-armed tactic that I approve the government using.   Now I don't support President Bush on everything he does, but this is certainly one item on the agenda that I approve of.

One additional focus of President Bush is given, is the October deadline for the government paperwork elimination act.   This act is requiring that all government items be available electronically.   As of current the OMB estimates that only about 52 percent of the 5800 paper transactions would be available electronically by the fall.